Posted on: Monday, July 9th, 2012
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Fassassin’s Creed
Conventional wisdom says every game-to-film adaption has no chance of critical success, excluding Hitman. Alright, fine—Hitman, too.
While ”success” is a sketchy term judging by every heathen still providing food, water, and shelter to Paul W.S. Anderson, Michael Fassbender and his Nazi-searing turquoise gaze of doom have signed on to end this predictable cycle of abuse in Hollywood cinema.
That’s right, Magneto is slated to swap the helm for the hood in a bigscreen adaption of Assassin’s Creed. Bizarre memory glitch incoming!
The Irish-German hunk of cyborg (re: Prometheus) was the “first choice” for Jean-Julien Baronnet, CEO of Paris-based Ubisoft Motion Pictures; ”Michael (Fassbender) is an extremely smart, talented, versatile and committed actor.” In layman’s terms, he isn’t Jake Gyllenhaal.
Ubisoft Motion Pictures is all for maintaining as much “creative control” as possible by having the film developed independently, so don’t go addressing letters of disappointment to your government just yet.
[Source: Variety]
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37 thoughts on “Fassassin’s Creed”
i heared he will play as all of the assassins (atiar eizo and conner) i hope he also plays as desmond to then all look the same.
THe biggest problem with gamer fans of the game is that they always expect the real-life actor to LOOK THE FREAKING SAME. that’s stupid
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That’s really secondary to the real question, how cohesive and well-written will the story be? the direction? the budget… all these things
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in my opinion great games are better than movies in a way. they last longer, make you more invested in the charecter, and the badass moments you actually do them! (well with a controller but you get what i mean) i think the movie should expand on the charecter, maybe show altiar’s rise to the master assassin seeing as though we already have the game
I always pegged Adam Sandler as the best Desmond impersonator. I mean hell, they look the freaking same! I gotta say, I would pay any amount of cash to see that. No matter how much he would likely flub it up.
If Adam Sandler was in that movie, regardless how much I love the game, I wouldn’t go see it. Adam sandler hasn’t been funny since his SNL days.
I’m gonna be interested to see how this works, after all most of the game was spent gathering information the same way nine times, which could be good but only if they do it right
The only movie I saw near success was the Prince of Persia, but I have a bad feeling about this one. Not to be negative but AC is something based on history while maintaining fantasy at work, something Hollywood can’t do well. Unless is directed by someone that knows about both history and the assassins purpouse, it will fail…
I know this may sound “negative” but I think Ubisoft maintaining creative control could break this thing. You know the saying, too many cooks ruins the kitchen? Imagine if one of those cooks was telling the real cook what to do from a different building?
Just saying, I would rather it be handed over to a regular film team, at least then it has a chance of being phenomenal.
This particular series does have some cinematic potential, but not if you have people more invested in the video game than the actual movie working on it.
I’m just going to say it, I liked postal. I liked it because it took the style and elements of the game but did it’s own story and went in it’s own direction. This is how you do an adaption, make it with the same soul as the original but with a new take or new presentation of the story.
Too many cooks ruins the food, not the kitchen. Sorry.
Sorry about that guys!
They should make an elder scrolls movie, about the infernal city. The heroes are named so you won’t have to worry about the fact that none of the others in the games are named. It should also be GOOD, not like the terrible dungeon siege movie.
I can’t ever see Bethesda letting someone outside the company interpreted
their game for a movie. Bethesda likes having everything in house… which is probably why they still haven’t gone down the suck road yet. But we’ll see what happens with this MMO coming up.
I think Prince of persia are quite a success
May I ask you Amanda; Did you spend almost three hours on editing your entry? You are quite a perfectionist, aren’t you?
Looking forward to reading more of your posts.
AWESOME! This is guy is epic, enjoyed almost every movie he’s been in. Anyway, getting someone with an actual Syrian accent would help Altair’s role..but they also need to keep the faces very similar between Desmond and his ancestors in the movies, just like the games…in which case if Fassbender plays Desmond, he should be ready to also play as the ancestors too xDD but tbh, I was hoping for a CGI movie..like the epic work on the Cinematic Assassin’s Creed Trailers..remember Revelation and Brotherhood’s? Now imagine the movie being that epic
As much as I playfully bash on Jake Gyllenhaalamasomething, he was a tolerable lead in Prince of Persia; the film itself didn’t do anything for me, though. I DO think Hollywood should strive to be more authentic with their casting choices however, especially with roles like Dastan and Altair. How often do you see a starring role given to an Indo-European or Middle-Eastern actor or actress, anyhow?
Good point there..the most they do is pick an american to try to immitate the foreign accent and looks and whatnot. I for one actually liked Prince of Persia, so since this is gonna have an even bigger production value, that’s all good news.
Given that Fassbe… Fashben… that this guy who’se name I can’
t pronounce correctly is going to be playing some major part (possibly lead) you think this might be another story with Ezio Auditore?
As an aside I don’t care who directs it as long as they stay as true as possible to the source material as able. Unlike the Wachowski’s with V for Vendetta and Verhoeven with Starship Troopers.
…And no Uwe Boll is just a given.
Oh, God. I forgot about the Bloodrayne flicks. Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! MY BRAIN IS SELF-DESTRUCTING.
So long as Paul Fucktard Anderson doesn’t have his name anywhere on this then it might have hope. You know what he would do with it? Ya you do. He’d cast his wife Milla Jovovich as Altaïr and turn this into an action movie with one big pile of slow motion scenes.
This a fresh start with a series and I hope SOME actual effort goes into it. With Silent Hill for example the movie writers/directors changed everything that didn’t need to be changed so it barely resembled the game it was suppose to based off of. Had any of them even bothered to play the first game instead of just read the back of a box they would have realized almost every single thing in the movie is wrong, one of which is the main character’s gender. You wouldn’t even have had to play past the intro to get that right.
I hope Fassbender can break the videogame to movie curse okay sure it might not get box office hits but come on at least make this movie a grade A+ or a B+ movie to go see unlike Resident Evil that just has a straight F! because the movies aren’t related to the games at all so let’s see I love Assassin’s Creed played all the games and hope the movie franchise be a success just like the game series
You guys know they are starting to get better at it. I mean look at the prince of persia movie… It turned out pretty good. So let’s wait and see…
But if you ask me, I think it may be pretty good. Considering that the “story” of assassins creed is pretty straight forward. Like the first assassins creed was made properly per the idea of the story, and it played more like an interactive movie rather then a game. While the other assassin creed games played more like a game having more of choices and items avalible to the player.
But at the end of the day… That’s what reviews are for. Like the review, then go watch it, if not then don’t. Very simple. I’d say just wish it luck, and let’s not anticipate a failure. :p
This is definately not a good idea. Basing movies off of games is not something that is smart. Sure, theres kind of cool movies based off of games like a the first two Resident Evil movies and Silent Hill, but there are more bad movies, like Hitman, Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Super Mario, Tekken, Bloodrayne and so on. The thing is that the stories and scripts are way too complicated to make a movie out of, and Assassins Creed is definately no exception, so even if they get some good actors it doesnt matter, because actors alone cant make a good movie. This is most likely just some people who wants to milk the fanbase of the Assassins Creed series of money.
well, it could possibly work, of all recent video game licences, AC seems very likely to make an effective leap into movie. it could suck, but then again any thing could suck if poorly implemented. I subscribe to the notion that any creative idea could succeed if rightly executed, but if the bowl even so much as sneezes on a copy of the script, I’ll through the metaphoric salt of superstition over my shoulder
Wait. They’re using a good actor for a well thought out Video Game script? Clearly they’re doing it wrong. Let’s see, how about we have the story have nothing to do with the game and have Altair played by Christian Slater and the movie directed by Uwe Boll. There, now the movie will suck. We can’t have it be good, it’s unfamiliar territory.
Man, I’d really LOVE to see how this turns out.
If it sucks, I’d like to see how much they strayed from the game, story wise.
If it’s good, I’d like to see how much cool stuff they managed to pull off.
Win-win situation for me!
Awesome.
One thing’s for sure, HE’LL be good, no matter how the movie is, so it will certainly be worth watching.
if any game would have a good screen adaptation it would be Assasins Creed, lets just hope it done in a competent manner.
Well, Uncharted could be a good one, since people love movies about old things, charismatic people, and explosions :p
It would just be another bad Indiana Jones rip-off.
Why is it that people hate video game movies that are loosely based off of the source material, despite the creators of the video game being made into a movie gives the go ahead for the movie to be made? Id software gave the okay for the Doom movie script then when it came out. Fans went totally ape shit. This one would be good even if it didn’t follow the source material closely. I mean you’ve played the damn game, seen every cutscene and knows what happens. Do people really want to see a 90 minute to two hour film of basically the cutscenes of a video game made in live action? I don’t! I want to see some originality with my video game movie. Excluding the Super Mario Brothers movie. When I was kid I thought it was good, but now thinking back, it really went away from the source material of the nintendo game.
As far as the Resident Evil movies. They are good, but are growing stale. I don’t care how elements of Resident Evil 5 found their way into Resident Evil: Afterlife. It had my favorite Resident Evil character of all time, Chris Redfield. Plus it was action packed. I don’t care as long as the cast get Left 4 Dead on the zombies.
Now a Assassin’s Creed movie looks like a good idea. Who knows if it will be a good idea on paper with a good execution or not.
I completley agree, well said
Exactly. We’ve played the game. We already know what happens. Let’s see something different. I believe this is the downfall of most video game movies. Games are way longer than your average movie so to try and condense all that into a 2-3 hour movie will look like a mess. This could be a great chance to flesh out Altair’s character and learn more about the assassins with a completely new story.
Most video game movies are just flat out bad, regardless of if they follow the game closely or not. I can certainly say, I wish Silent Hill had followed the first game a lot more closely than it did, instead of doing whatever the hell it did, I feel it would’ve made it a better movie by far. That being said, a video game movie doesn’t need to follow the game if they want to do their own story set in the universe, which I think is a great idea. However, more often than not, they’ll just do a crappy ‘reimagining’ of the story, which is far worse than what was presented in the game.
Also, just because the developers ok the script doesn’t mean that that is EXACTLY what is going to appear in the movie. The director, once given the project, has the option to completely change anything he wants, and a lot of directors often do so. Furthermore, who knows what version of the script that the developers oked? It might be the first draft (which almost always is vastly different than the final draft).
Finally, the only ‘good’ Resident Evil film was the first one in a guilty pleasure kinda way, at least it was the only one I actually had fun watching. The second one was god awful, but at least it still felt like Resident Evil. The third one onward just made it get worse, and worse, and worse. God those movies are bad, I can’t believe anyone would call them good.
I didn’t think they would actually go through with this, but it looks like Ubisoft is serious. I hope this doesn’t become a horrible stain upon the Assassin’s Creed series that you can’t get rid of. I have faith, but I’m not putting money on it.
I want to believe that Ubisoft can do it right. The shortfilm adaptation for Assasin’s Creed 2, was cheap, yet fantastic. Everything has sense and you care about the things you see. The story is amazing in the film and in the video game.
This isn’t Mario Bros the movie.
This isn’t Capcom bullshit Resident Evil Hollywood.
This is Ubisoft. They can even do a Splinter Cell movie and i think it may works fine.
did you never see the max payne movie, i think it did well and was close to the first game
I hope this doesn’t turn into the next Resident Evil “quality” movie series, aka where the plots make little to no sense and have almost nothing to do with the games. I especially hated Aftermath where they just shoved in RE5 game features completely without any kind of context or logic. The first 2 were the only ones that even tried to resemble their video game plots. When it came time for a third, Asshole Anderson just said “fuk it, people don’t like these movies, so I’ll just do whatever the fuk I want now”. Then we got Hitman… which I thought was ok… it didn’t completely betray the games… it was a weak movie… but not the worst PoS in the bunch. Then we got Silent Hill… I don’t even want to talk about that one, go watch one of Phelous’ videos on it if you want info on that failure.(He actually reviewed it twice because it was that disappointing for him)
What I am saying is that I hope they at least TRY to resemble their video game counterparts. But I have no hope or expectations. At this point I think I can speak for everyone when I say we naturally now expect movies based on games or games based on movies to be PoS cash in products with little to no effort or loyalty to their source material.
I’m surprised we haven’t gotten Call of Duty movies yet. You’d especially expect that one to be turned into movies because how can you fuk up a plot or characters that was already pretty much non existent to start with? You could basically write and cast it however you wanted it, shove in lots of CGI effects(George Lucas or Michael Bay style) and it would actually remain faithful to the games.(Because all they really are is shooting and action with zill story/plot. Not even Hollywood could fuk that up)